In December 2012 I wrote of my family’s visit to Bletchley Park in Central England. Bletchley has a remarkable history and we enjoyed discovering its contribution to computer science along with that of Alan Turing.In the article, I mentioned the tragic…
2013 in review
I am certainly not one to decline when someone offers to write a blog entry for me. Here, courtesy of the stats monkeys at WordPress is the annual report for the AvocetSolutions.com blog: And here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,600 times in 2013. […]
SAS and Bing Maps API
Here is a method for using SAS and Bing Maps:Signed up for a key on Bing Maps API. Create a basic key and copy it somewhere. I will demonstrate it in the SAS code as [BINGKEY] since I cannot share mine publicly: https://www.bingmapsportal.com/ Use the …
Your "2013" Top Ten
It’s nearing the end of the year so I thought I’d publish a list of the ten most viewed articles published this year. Like last year, I realised that this would be skewed in favour of older articles. So, in an effort to bring balance, I decid…
NOTE: Have You Won Yet?
Are you checking the SAS advent calendar daily, and entering the prize draw? Have you won anything yet? I have not, but I did win a very informative book a couple of years ago. Opening the windows in the advent calendar is an annual treat. Last year …
Providing User Access to the SAS® BI Lineage Plug-in
I was asked yesterday whether it was possible to use the SAS® Management Console BI Lineage plug-in to provide non-administrators with the ability to review BI Lineage scans (as previously run by administrators). The BI Lineage plug-in can be used to do impact analysis for BI content (reports, information maps etc.) in a similar way […]